Warlock of War: My Ares System

"Okay… Gotcha… Anyway, Orion and I will do the talking, so you all be good little children and don\'t cause a ruckus… okay?" Luna said with a smile that clearly displayed her threatening aura.

As we entered the adventurers guild, the power and pressure of various strong warriors seemed to bend our spines.

It was strange walking next to them, but they weren\'t nearly as bad as the demon lord who, when unleashing his maximum amount of bloodlust, would bend and twist each and every single one of your bones… it wasn\'t quite something I looked forward to.

"If you want to sign up for the adventurers guild, please go upstairs," The receptionist said, but we just tossed her our royal knight IDs that had been handed out to us and let that do all the talking.

She glanced up and down from the sturdy cards, confirming our faces and making sure we hadn\'t stolen these precious things.

"What is it that you want?" She now asked, pulling out a piece of paper and a pen for writing.

"How much is it for information?" I asked, and the woman slowly frowned before pushing the piece of paper and pen away.

"Depends what you ask… and what you\'re willing to spread to these men around you,"

The adventurers drinking and playing games in this hub all lightly chuckled before continuing their conversations.

"It\'s a simple question. Point us in the direction of Beezlebub\'s territory, we have a mission sent by the demon lord himself. And don\'t worry, we won\'t be stirring up any trouble," Luna said coldly before taking our IDs back.

The tense air from around us slowly relaxed as their potential prey had essentially up and walked away.

They were probably planning on stealing or taking something from us with the information, but if it is knowledge as common as that, then it should relax the air.

"Please follow me," The receptionist said before exiting her little counter.

As we began to follow her up a flight of wooden stairs, she quickly turned around and stopped the group, cracking open her lips to say something.

"Only one person may follow me. The rest shall stay in the hub,"

I looked back at my group behind me and signaled that I would go ahead, so as they excitedly the stairs, ready to drink a bit, I followed the woman into a private room filled to the brim with drawers and cabinets.

"Huh? You couldn\'t have just told me where it was?" I asked, assuming it wasn\'t common information anymore.

"Beezlebub\'s territory is special since it is always moving around. Though, we can easily calculate where it might be judging from the month and year… so…."

As the woman shifted through several files, she finally pulled one out and opened it up, revealing a language that I could seem to comprehend.

"To the west… got it," I muttered.

"Nope… It\'s to the east right now. That was one thousand years ago… But, you still have to pay up,"

"And how much might that be?" I asked.

Once again, the woman looked me up and down, seemingly judging me before cracking open those slimy lips of hers.

"One gold," She said with a perfectly unwavering face, trying to turn that absolute scam into truth for a foreigner such as me.

"Don\'t bullshit me and give me the real price," I muttered, but the receptionist didn\'t back down.

"I did give you the real price… now, hand it over before I call all those men up here to hand you your ass,"

"If that was the real price, you would\'ve had me pay some upfront. Also, those men down there who are going to supposedly beat my ass would\'ve tensed up a bit more upon me asking what the information was,"

She looked me up and down, reevaluating her image of me, making me even more disgusted with her as time went on.

"Seems you\'re smarter than you look… but I doubt you could pay the real price. It\'s still fifteen silver…."

"I see… Then, can I pay in installments or something? I have nothing of value on me as of now, so I don\'t what I could offer. But, I\'ll definitely get you the money in just a few days,"

"I would\'ve believed you since you had such a pretty face, but I know you\'ll just take the money and leave without a second thought. I mean, going into a different territory will prevent us from hunting you down,"

"Then what do you want for it?" I asked, trying to be as civil as possible.

All of a sudden, the receptionist licked her lips and looked me up and down before strutting over to me, her hips swaying side to side.

"Come back once in a while so we can have more fun," The woman muttered before pulling her face close to mine.

…

"Now, you can always come back here if you need to release some stress. You\'re quite the beautiful man, and I wouldn\'t mind partaking in more of this later on,"

As I changed back into my clothes and slung my spear across my back, I took a glance at the woman who was still practically naked.

"Uh huh… anyway, I\'ll assume you won\'t be trying to hunt us down now, right?"

"I\'m a woman of my word…."

"Thanks for the information," I coldly muttered before exiting the room and seeing my entire group staring at me with a cold gaze.

"My bad… she wouldn\'t let us go if I didn\'t pay up, and she was pretty anyway. Girls with glasses are my type," I muttered, taking some of the makeup that Luna never uses to cover up the hickeys along my neck.

After covering it up, I gave Luna a fist bump, but the rest of them didn\'t care to talk to me anymore as they had already made their way back downstairs.

"She was kinda bad, not gonna lie," Luna snickered as she saw the salty reactions of my friends.

"She\'s pretty good… anyway, let\'s get going. I know where the territory is," I muttered and followed my friends back onto the street and into the bright white sun.

Everybody seemed a bit awkward with each other as we walked down the dusty street, so Luna quickly picked up a conversation.

"What\'s wrong? Don\'t tell me you\'re all virgins?" Luna asked the rest of the group, who flinched upon hearing those words escape from her mouth.

"So what if I am? I\'m going to lose my virginity to somebody I truly love…." Bella muttered with a red blush spreading across her face.

"Then you gotta find somebody you actually love…."

"I-I\'m working on it…."

"And what are your excuses?" I asked the others, who all had a light blush spread across their face as they attempted to look away from me.

It\'s not like it mattered whether they had found love or not, but it was quite fun teasing them into oblivion.

"S-Same thing… I-I just want to find somebody I truly love first," Cy stuttered with Findir and Aisa, both rapidly nodding their heads up and down.

"W-Wait a second… Y-You both dated before, right?" Bella turned to Luna and me, who followed behind them, completely relaxed and chuckling to ourselves with each amusing reaction.

"Yeah? And?" Luna replied.

"Well… did you do you… you… know… what… with him?" Bella dragged out her sentence as the blush spread across her face even more.

Eventually, she just looked like a bright red tomato as she stood in front of us, looking hesitantly between us.

"Like what? Having sex?" I asked, and Bella quickly covered my mouth before frantically looking around to see if anybody heard me.

"Shhhh… Don\'t be too loud… and yes, having sex," She whispered, and I couldn\'t help but chuckle once again before pushing her back.

"No, we didn\'t. It was obvious after a few weeks that we were both using each other, so we subconsciously set a line between us… though his lips are quite soft," Luna muttered while grabbing Bella\'s chin.

"I-I didn\'t need to know that… I-I just don\'t want to wake up to the sound of you guys going at it… okay?"

"Don\'t worry. There were no feelings between us… and still aren\'t, I hope,"

Luna turned towards me with a bit of a nervous smile, and my absolutely disgusted face was more than enough to tell Bella that there was nothing between us anymore.

"That\'s what I thought… Plus, I already have a crush, which is much more handsome than this girly-looking dude," Luna said, ruffling my hair.

I attempted to ruffle her own hair in response, but she quickly dodged my hand and smirked at me with a smug look.

"And who might this crush be?"

"Why the hell would I tell you? You\'re just going to bully him once we get the hell out of here," Luna responded with a wide smile.

"Well, you can\'t hide it from me forever…." I evilly laughed before running ahead to walk beside Aisa, who was the easiest target to tease.